Old moon madness has struck again

Naamloos deel 13

Slight mention of rape, nothing specific, in this chapter.

In the days that passed by, Daniel kept true to his words and didn't leave Max's side. He was always keeping an eye on him, no matter what he was doing.

His wounds seemed to be healing quite nicely. Seb did a regular check up too.

There was just one thing that seemed to bother him, Which were the dizzy spells Max seemed to be getting some times.

All of them had noticed it and asked Max if he was okay so many times that Max had snapped and told them all to back off. He was fine.

But he wasn't. That much became clear a few days later.

Max was just on his way to go down the stairs, after having slept in a bit, when one of those dizzy spells hit him. But this one was so bad he blacked out and lost his footing, nothing but a pained gasp escaping him as he started tumbling down.

Daniel, who was just coming to the stairs to go up and see how Max was doing, stared in horror as he saw him fall.

"Max!" He used his speed to rush up there and catch him before Max even made it halfway down the stairs. He lowered him down onto one of the steps. "Max. Can you hear me?"

The commotion had set the pack in motion and they were all gathered by the stairs, trying to see what was going on.

"Daniel?" Sebastian asked, seeing the other man on the stairs. "What's wrong?"

Daniel looked over his shoulder, panic written on his face. "It's Max. He.... He fell. I caught him. But... I can't wake him up."

Seb felt Kimi squeeze his shoulder and he shared a look with him.

"Bring him down," Kimi spoke up. "Seb can examine him."

Seb wasn't sure what he was supposed to examine. Maybe one of the wounds had been infected. Maybe it was internal damage.

The dizzy spells Max had been trying to ignore had to be coming from somewhere though.

Daniel carefully carried him down and placed him on the couch. He sat down on the armrest, stroking his fingers through Max's hair.

Seb came closer and examined the omega, but just as he thought, he couldn't see anything physically wrong with him.

This had to be something internal.

"He smells different," Charles suddenly piped up and everyone turned their head to look at him. Even Daniel. "What? He does."

Using their heightened smell this time, they all sniffed the air in Max's direction.

"He smells like... He's holding back his heat. " Lando mused. You weren't supposed to smell like suppressants. He's used suppressants before himself to control his heat when he knew Carlos really couldn't be with him... Oh--- "Oh no..."

Seb stared wide eyed at Lando, "Don't tell me - - -"

Lando hurried upstairs, they could hear him stomp around and rummage in things, then he came back with a bottle of pills.

His eyes looked wide and frantic. "Max doesn't use suppressants. This one is mine. It's empty."

"How full was it?" Seb questioned. He tried his hardest to just evaluate before panicking.

The fall of Lando's face wasn't a good sign at all.

"It was still completely full."

There was a collective gasp around the room, Daniel's fingers stilling in Max's hair.